Tetradrachm - Alexios

Akanthos, a Macedonian coastal colony on the Chalkidike peninsula, issued this tetradrachm during a period when the city was navigating difficult ground between Macedonian expansion under Perdiccas III and Amyntas III and the competing pressures of the Chalkidian League. The lion-and-bull type for which Akanthos is renowned predates this issue by roughly a century; by the mid-fourth century the mint's output was diminishing as Macedonian consolidation tightened regional autonomy.

HGC 3.1#391 documents the series as scarce. The name "Alexios" likely refers to a magistrate or moneyer, a relatively rare instance of named authority on Akanthian silver.